The best under-15 female cricketers from across the country will come together for a series of Twenty20 and 40-over matches at Wellington College at the end of this month.
The annual England Women’s Development Programme Under-15 (EWDP U15) Super 3s competition will run from Monday, July 28 to Friday, August 1 and involves the top 39 young players split evenly into three teams. The players will be hoping to catch the eye of the watching England Women’s selectors.
In addition to competing in two 40-over games and two T20 matches, the players will also take part in a range of educational workshops focusing on nutrition, strength and conditioning and personal developmental and welfare during the week.
Commenting about the EWDP U15 Super 3s competition and its wider significance, ECB Head of England Women’s Cricket Clare Connor said: “The England Women’s Development Programmes at U15 and U19 underpin the England women’s cricket pathway.
"Both programmes seek to create an environment that challenges and supports our young players to improve as cricketers and develop as people. This happens through a wide range of opportunities throughout the year, including a comprehensive winter training schedule, the EWDP U15 and U19 Super 3s competitions, and other matches and festivals during the season.
“The scope of opportunities now available to young female cricketers is greater than ever before – as is the competition for places across the England women’s cricket pathway."
In addition to the three EWDP U15 Super 3s teams – known as the Diamonds, Emeralds and Rubies – an invitational U16 “Sapphires” side will also take part in the competition at Wellington College.
2014 EWDP U15 Super 3s squads in full:
| Diamonds | Emeralds | Rubies |
1 | Cassie Coombes (captain) (Somerset) | Mai Bouchier (captain) (Middlesex) | Shachi Pai (captain) (Lancashire) |
2 | Emma Albery (Hertfordshire) | Alice Dyson (Derbyshire) | Georgia Boyce (Nottinghamshire) |
3 | Eve Alder (Gloucestershire) | Sophie Ecclestone (Cheshire) | Courtney Cooper |
4 | Isobel Cloke (Kent) | Kate George (Hampshire) | Mollie Davis (Kent) |
5 | Providence Cowdrill (Hampshire) | Elodie Harbourne (Kent) | Rose Evans (Wales) |
6 | Emily Edgcombe (Cornwall) | Ellie Ingham-Hill (Devon) | Danielle Gibson (Gloucestershire) |
7 | Kate Green (Shropshire) | Hannah Poulter (wkt) (Yorkshire) | Bess Heath (wkt) (Derbyshire) |
8 | Anna Harris (Buckinghamshire) | Alicia Presland (Huntingdonshire) | Nancy Hebron (Essex) |
9 | Ellie Mason (Cheshire) | Karla Rose (Somerset) | Hannah Jones (Lancashire) |
10 | Alice Monaghan (Hampshire) | Charlotte Scarborough (Wales) | Jessie Jones (Devon) |
11 | Jessica Kate Thornton (Wales) | Lucy Staunton-Turner (Lancashire) | Sophie Mackenzie (Cornwall) |
12 | Eleanor Threlkeld (wkt) (Lancashire) | Maddie Walsh (Yorkshire) | Rebecca Newark (Yorkshire) |
13 | Adelaide Walkling (Huntingdonshire) | Steph Weston (Buckinghamshire) | Erin Staunton-Turner (Lancashire) |
2014 Junior Sapphires U16 squad:
| Sapphires |
1 | Emily Arlott (Warwickshire) |
2 | Megan Belt (Kent) |
3 | Ellen Burt (Sussex) |
4 | Sophia Dunkley (Middlesex) |
5 | Phoebe Franklin (Kent) |
6 | Lucy Higham (Leicestershire) |
7 | Kennedy Nuttall (Yorkshire) |
8 | Millie Pope (Middlesex) |
9 | Georgia Relf (Leicestershire) |
10 | Bryony Smith (Surrey) |
11 | Millie Squire (Devon) |
12 | Mady Villers (Essex) |
13 | India Whitty (wkt) (Middlesex) |